Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
CHAPTER XIII.
HOW SHE BECAME AWARE OF IT..

HOW SHE BECAME AWARE OF IT.
Trip had no money in her pocket. She
had started from home with five pounds
which her father had given her.
"Although your husband be rich,
Trip" Dick had said, "still it's just as
well you should have something of your
own, and not have to ask him for every
trifle you may need. And Trip if ever
you want aught and are shy of asking
him, I'm your dad, in velveteen and gait
ers, and I've good wages, and the disposal
of some of the game as a perquiste, and
can put away II pound or two; and you
must ask me at any time should you
want money unbeknOwn to your grand
husband in broadcloth and silk hats"
Now this five pounds was gone. 1t
had been given to Trip in n note, not in
gold. She had not changed it; she had
had nc occasion, no opportunity, to
change it; and one day was the very
day after her marriage-Nr. Beaufort
borrowed it of her.
She did not like at once to remind him
of the money, though he had asked the
loan for ten minutes to pay for Goals.
But, when week passed and nothing
was said of the five pounds, she ventured
timidly to recall it to Algcrnon. lie
laughed, my dear Trip, what can you
want money for? l pay for everything.
You have no bills, you buy nothing. Ask
me for anything you want, and you shall
have it,
81 ask for the five pounds back" she
said with some spirit.
"That, said he putting his hand in his
pocket and drawing forth some silver,
"that is not possible just now; | have
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money out have only seven and six in
silver, tenpence in copper, and thirty
shillings in gold"
"Then let me have the thirty shillings."
"My precious Trip-what for? 1t will
force me to go to-day, which will be most
inconvenient, to town, to my bankers"
'Thcn the seven and six on account"
"That | want for the baker who is de-
manding his account. We have had
pound cakes as well as bread, and tea
cake, too.
"Then give me the tenpence in cop
pers.
Il must buy some stamps; l am run
out of queen 5 heads
"That is precisely what I want money
for" said Trip, testify. II have neither
paper nor envelopes nor stamps. have
nothing to do with my time; want to
write letters"
"Do YOU" asked Mr.. Beaufort, with
some sharpness. "llave | not told you
that | will not have letters sent home or
anywhere for n month? Wait till the
months end, and then you may write as
much as you like"
"But why not now"
because | will not allow it." He was
angry, and an ugly expression came in
his zee which frightened Trip. "Mind
what / have already said. You disobey
me at your peril"
Then he left the room.
Instead Of crushing her with his
threatening words and tone, he had irri-
tated her. Trip had been accustomed to
have her own way all her life as far as it
had run, and contrariety was what she
could not endure,
She did not cry; she sat brooding, with
pursed lips and contracted brows, and a
very angry, rebellious light in her eyes.
She sat twirling her diamond ring on her
pretty, delicate finger, the ring worth,
| according to Mr.. Beaufort, a hundred and
fifty pounds. Had he lied to her about
that ring, as he had lied about the Nor
way journey, and the court in Glouces-
tershire, and the house in Piccadillyi
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guided by this This was matter in
which she could satisfy herself; and, of
course, there was still just n possibility
that he was really prevented from cross
ing to Norway as proposed, that he had
some property in Worcestershire, and a
house undergoing repairs in Piccadilly.
So she resolved to put this matter to
a test, n crucial test, and act according as
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false in this, he was false in everything,
She would write to her father, tell him
everything, and beg him to come TO Lon
don and come to an explanation with her
husband.
She was then without any shoes on her
feet; she supposed they were below in the
back kitchen. The maid, Nelly, had not
brought them up, and she had taken them
down overnight or early in the morning
to clean.